Nursery-gate



(No Model.)

J. H. PETERSON.

NURSERY GATE. l No. 367.162. l Patented July 26, 1887'.

`VVITNESSE i v lNVENI'QH www /f/ff/f/fffT A UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEJOHN H. PETERSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

NURSERY-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,162, dated July 26,1887.

Application tiled June 14, 1586. Serial No. 205,170.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN H. PETERSON, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inNursery- Gates, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to furnish a nursery-gate which will besimple and.ineX-.

pensive, and which children cannot climb over.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, of my-nursery-gate; and Fig. 2 is an end View.

A A are tubes, within each of which and projecting therefrom are placedtwo sliding rods, B B.

C are springs within tubes A A', the ends of which bear against theinside ends of rods B B', and which are secured at their middles D tothe tubes A A.

' E are slats to which the tubes A A are secured.

E are slats secured to the rods B B'. The ends of rods B B are placed insuitable holes iu the sides of the doorway and are h eld' in place bythe pressure of the springs. The dotted lines represent the doorway. Theslats E are sufficiently close together to prevent a child from passingbetween them, and they are sufficiently high to prevent its crawlingover them. f In nursery-gates as'ordinarily constructed the slats arehorizontal and children can-climb up them, and they sometimes fall offand renursery-gate that may be adj usted to doors of different widths,as shown in the patent to E. A. Tuttle, dated AugustlZ, 1873; neither4is it new to provide a tube with projecting rods which are forcedoutward by coiled springs within the tube, asshown inthe patent to W. E.Hammond, dated June 16,1865. I do not therefore claim either of thesedevices by itself. My improved gateis self-adjusting and does notrequire the application of any fixtures which would reduce the clearwidth between the door-posts to hold it in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- In a nursery gate, thecombination, with the recessed door-posts, of the gate consisting oftubes A and A, sliding rods B and B', the springs C within the tubes,adapted to force said rods outward into the recesses ot the posts, theslats E, attached to the tubes, and the slats PLQ-connecting the rodsnear their outer ends, all arranged and operating substantially as shownand described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN II. PErEnsoN.

